Résumé
Concise, readable, and pragmatic, Peer Reviews in Software walks you through the peer review process and gives you the specific methods and techniques you need to help ensure a quality software release. Comprehensively covering both formal and informal processes, the book describes various peer review methods and offers advice on their appropriate use under a variety of circumstances.
This book focuses on-but is not limited to-the technique of inspection. This is the most formal, rigorous, and effective type of peer review. The various stages of inspection-including planning, individual preparation, conducting inspection meetings, and follow-up-are discussed in detail. In addition, Peer Reviews in Software explores the cultural and social nuances involved in critiquing the work of others, and reveals
Specific topics include:
- Overcoming resistance to reviews
- Inspection teams and roles
- Inspection process stages
- Scheduling inspection events
- Analyzing inspection data
- Peer review training
- Critical success factors and pitfalls
- Relating peer reviews to process improvement models
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. The Quality Challenge
Chapter 2. A Little Help from Your Friends
Chapter 3. Peer Review Formality Spectrum
Chapter 4. The Inspection Process
Chapter 5. Planning the inspection
Chapter 6. Examining the Work product
Chapter 7. Putting Your Heads Together
Chapter 8. Bringing Closure
Chapter 9. Analyzing Inspection Data
Chapter 10. Installing a Peer Review Program
Chapter 11. Making Peer Reviews Work For You
Chapter 12. Special Review Challenges
Appendix A. Peer Reviews and Process Improvement
Models
Appendix B. Supplemental Materials
Glossary of Peer Review Terms
References
Index
L'auteur - Karl E. Wiegers
Karl E. Wiegers is Principal Consultant with Process
Impact, a software process consulting and education company
in Portland, Oregon. Previously, he spent 18 years at
Eastman Kodak Company, where he held positions as a
photographic research scientist (four years), a software
applications developer (nine years), a software manager
(three years), and a software process and quality
improvement leader (five years). He has led process
improvement activities for small teams, for a division of
500 software engineers building Kodak's digital imaging
products, and for the Kodak Internet development group. His
writing and teaching are based largely on his experience in
improving development processes, technical practices, and
quality practices in all these environments, as well as
incorporating experiences drawn from his dozens of
consulting clients. Karl has managed numerous small
software development projects.
Karl received a B.S. degree in chemistry from Boise State
College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in organic chemistry
from the University of Illinois. He is a member of the
IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and ACM. He has served on the
Editorial Board for IEEE Software magazine and as a
Contributing Editor for Software Development
magazine.
Karl is the author of three previous books, and he has
written more than 150 articles on many aspects of software
engineering and management, chemistry, and military history
during the past 30 years. He is a frequent speaker at
software conferences, public seminars, and professional
society meetings. As an independent consultant, Karl
presents training seminars and consulting engagements at
companies worldwide on requirements engineering, software
peer reviews, process improvement, risk management, and
related topics. He has worked with more than 60 companies
in many different industry sectors since 1997.
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Addison Wesley |
| Auteur(s) | Karl E. Wiegers |
| Parution | 27/12/2001 |
| Nb. de pages | 232 |
| Format | 18,8 x 23,4 |
| Couverture | Broché |
| Poids | 519g |
| Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
| EAN13 | 9780201734850 |
| ISBN13 | 978-0-201-73485-0 |
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